Western governments had stressed a new military capacity , the need increased for an expansion of military expenditures and the legitimacy of the use of military force in international conflicts and international geopolitical relations. Kimmy Carter pledged himself in 1978 to a 3 .3 % in military spending , the Republican Party manifesto committed itself to restoring military superiority. Speaking to cadres at its miltary academy at West Point in 1981 on the dangers of “Treaty Trap” President Ronald Reagan promised to expand America’s military strength. “No nation that placed its faith in parchment or paper while at the same time it gave up its protective hardware (military) ever lasted long enough to write many pages in history” he said. Reagan’s first Secretary of State Alexander Haig stated on many occasions during the first months after coming into office that the Administration’s priority was , in his phase , ” the restoration of U.S. military and economic strength” He told an audience that “some things were more valuable than peace”
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These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly
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Fission Physics [1996]
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Drawing Back the Curtain of Secrecy: Restricted Data Declassification Decisions, 1946 to the Present (January 1, 2000). Version RDD-6. Lots of interesting bits of information about nuclear weapons.
T-2 Nuclear Information Service. Located at Los Alamos, this is the site to go to first for nuclear physics data.
Nuclear Data Center of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). This is an excellent source of nuclear physics data also.
Greenpeace Report on dual capable technology (check out Figs 4, 5, 6 and 7)
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Cold War I developed like its predecessor Cold War II , from the breakdown of relations between the major capitalist states amd the USSR that were to some degree cooperative. On the basis of its first four years 1079-1982 , it can be seen how it partook , with some significant variations of the characteristics that marked off Cold War I as a distinct period of postwar history.The most obvious index of Cold War is a greater sense of the danger of war. Cold War II involved emphasis by both sides upon the likelihood of a war and on the need for military preperations against possible attacks from the enemy. The rise of the peace movement certainly served to draw greater attention to this issue, and for the first time achieved a significant audience inside the uSA.
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The boy was obviously shoplifting. Later he is confronted by a parent figure, who asks where he learnt to steal, saying that it could not of been at home.
The boy replies that he learnt to steal from his father who in the boy’s words, steals satellite signals. Theft we are told is theft.
Perhaps.
The dictatorships do so to suppress revolutionary ideas that may infiltrate their oppressed populations. We do so ostensibly to protect ourselves from undue American influence on our culture and to protect our fragile broadcasting industry and our endangered artists.
This despite the fact that the real mark of artistic success in
The standard of broadcasting success here is to clone of popular
We license Canadian broadcaster to obtain approved
Back to the shoplifting kid. Why with all these controls, are cable companies worried about what they call satellite theft? Because, to their concern, three quarters of a million Canadians are fed up with their government dictating what television they are allowed to watch and are fighting back by accessing U.S. satellites. They would rather
Watch the originals rather than the clones. Some even want the other half of the Super Bowl games- the commercials that pull in as many viewers as the game itself, but which are deleted from the Canadian broadcasts.
Our cable companies, operating under an organization called the Coalition against Satellite Theft, or something similar want us to feel like criminals for watching television.
The comparison to shoplifting is inaccurate. The thieving boy is in a store when the lifts the chocolate bar. The TV viewer is in his home where the signals, not to put too fine a point on it, are trespassing on his property. He simply has equipment that enables him to watch the signals that are already there.
It would be fairer to depict the boy in his home, with the chocolate bar on the kitchen table in some sort of container which he can obtain a key. The fact that the government says it is illegal for him to have that key doesn’t take the chocolate bar out of his home where he thinks, quite rightly, that he should have it.
Canadians who watch TV they want to watch are not shoplifters, or thieves. They are victims of an attempt at control that is unworthy of a democratic government.
We see this control in many places. Our own Royal bank of
Strange, isn’t it, that we applaud the efforts of Canadian organization, such as the Royal Bank and Rogers to expand their U.S. operations but close the door firmly to any U.S. competition here, be it Direct TV which might better suit some of our viewing habits, or a major U.S. bank that might provide some real competition to the benefit of consumers in Canada.
The cable companies, who are stuck with expensive digital programming that no one is watching, want to boost their viewership. How do they propose to do so? By adding
They should be allowed to do so. Canadian satellite companies should do the same. We however, should be allowed to choose between the clones and the original without being called thieves.
The boy was obviously shoplifting. Later he is confronted by a parent figure, who asks where he learnt to steal, saying that it could not of been at home.
The boy replies that he learnt to steal from his father who in the boy’s words, steals satellite signals. Theft we are told is theft.
Perhaps.
The dictatorships do so to suppress revolutionary ideas that may infiltrate their oppressed populations. We do so ostensibly to protect ourselves from undue American influence on our culture and to protect our fragile broadcasting industry and our endangered artists.
This despite the fact that the real mark of artistic success in
The standard of broadcasting success here is to clone of popular
We license Canadian broadcaster to obtain approved
Back to the shoplifting kid. Why with all these controls, are cable companies worried about what they call satellite theft? Because, to their concern, three quarters of a million Canadians are fed up with their government dictating what television they are allowed to watch and are fighting back by accessing U.S. satellites. They would rather
Watch the originals rather than the clones. Some even want the other half of the Super Bowl games- the commercials that pull in as many viewers as the game itself, but which are deleted from the Canadian broadcasts.
Our cable companies, operating under an organization called the Coalition against Satellite Theft, or something similar want us to feel like criminals for watching television.
The comparison to shoplifting is inaccurate. The thieving boy is in a store when the lifts the chocolate bar. The TV viewer is in his home where the signals, not to put too fine a point on it, are trespassing on his property. He simply has equipment that enables him to watch the signals that are already there.
It would be more fair to depict the boy in his home, with the chocolate bar on the kitchen table in some sort of container which he can obtain a key. The fact that the government says it is illegal for him to have that key doesn’t take the chocolate bar out of his home where he thinks, quite rightly, that he should have it.
Canadians who watch TV they want to watch are not shoplifters, or thieves. They are victims of an attempt at control that is unworthy of a democratic government.
We see this control in many places. Our own Royal bank of
Strange, isn’t it, that we applaud the efforts of Canadian organization, such as the Royal Bank and Rogers to expand their U.S. operations but close the door firmly to any U.S. competition here, be it Direct TV which might better suit some of our viewing habits, or a major U.S. bank that might provide some real competition to the benefit of consumers in Canada.
The cable companies, who are stuck with expensive digital programming that no one is watching, want to boost their viewership. How do they propose to do so? By adding
They should be allowed to do so. Canadian satellite companies should do the same. We however, should be allowed to choose between the clones and the original without being called thieves.
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Sphere: Related Content  There was no sucessfull negotiations between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. of mutual concerns whether bilateral in Europe or in the rest of the world. Polemics and mutual denuniaciations aside ,, this lack of negotiation and negotiations replaced compromise and any attempts at the image of negotiation and compromises.Â
  Inabilities to find common solutions and common ground on major issues was marked by tense confrontation and confrontations along the “Iron Curtains” of Eastern Europe and in the Far East , Indochina and Middle East political and geopolitical regions.
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What become of the characteristics of the cold war period of detente ? Defined in this manner it becomes easier to identify the peculiarities between these two periods that have come between the two Cold Wars , that of Oscialliatory Antagonism and that of the period of Detente. In the latter mode the clearest contrast , the former is an antagonous period containing elements and phases of Detente followed by revesion to the Coldest part of the Cold War. The six features of the time period of Detente contrast with those already seen as characterizing the Cold War period.
Detente was seen as a retreat and retrenchment from the all out arms race and by a rhetoric of peace and a pursuit of agreed levels of armament and armaments. This is spite of the later years and senility of the then president and chief of staff Jimmy ( the peanut farmer ) Carter - brother of “Billy Carter”
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When the history of history’s bloodiest century is written, a few scientists will appear in the table of contents. Physicist Alert Einstein , surely. Radiation pioneer Marie Curie, probably. Discoverer of penicillin Alexander Fleming, maybe. 
But you can bank on reading “Edward Teller: Physicist, nuclear pioneer, accomplished pianist, ace ping-pong player, troubled genius, hawkish expert advisor; often called ‘Father of the
Passionate advocacy of nuclear weapons earned Teller a lifelong entry to the corridors of power, and for close to five decades he was an eminently qualified, intensely intelligent, combative conservative voice on national security affairs.
Among other things, Teller’s vision of nuclear-powered, orbiting laser battle stations fired the imagination of President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, inspiring the Star Wars program. And while his X-ray lasers never exactly worked, the missile defense “star wars” program survives, at an estimated cost of $9 billion in fiscal year 2004. It’s purpose — catch the irony? — is to defeat missiles carrying hydrogen bombs — the invention forever linked to Teller’s name.
An earthshaking invention
Arrogant, ambitious, argumentative, Teller was a Hungarian Jewish refugee who changed the world. Beyond helping invent the “Teller-Ulam” design — the heart of virtually every hydrogen bomb ever made — he had enormous social and political clout.
Teller was “Perhaps one of the handful of most influential scientists in the 20th century,” says Robert S. Norris, a historian with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “He was at many places at just the right time to influence events… participated in the Manhattan Project, pushed the H-bomb, created a second [nuclear weapons] laboratory, influenced the [nuclear] testing debate, and later in life, ballistic missile defense.” Norris is biographer of General Leslie Groves, the overall director of the Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bomb .
The “Mike” test, Nov. 1, 1952, was the world’s first hydrogen bomb. The blast used the Teller-Ulam design, still the mainstay of H-bombs, and had the power of 10.4 million tons of TNT, about 1,000 times the bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
Unlike a good number of his fellow nuclear physicists, Teller trenchantly opposed weapons control. “He deserves much of the credit (or blame), probably more than any other single individual, for the failure of the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to prohibit underground tests along with those in all other environments…” wrote physicist Herbert York in 1976 . Continued testing has been key to developing and improving many nuclear arsenals.
In an interview, York, the first director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told The Why Files that Teller was “strong, positive, he pushed his way in, was absolutely convinced he was right about nuclear weapons and international security questions. He was dedicated, if he had an opportunity to see a key senator, he would get up out of his sickbed. People who like what he did thought he was heroic, but I think he caused more harm than good.”
Teller’s legacy, York says, is, “A more dangerous world.”
Mike weighed 82 tons, and was a test of principle, not a deliverable bomb. Those weirdo antlers were pipes that directed radiation to distant gauges so physicists could measure events in different parts of the bomb. The pipes, and everything else you see (except that bored guy catching some solar radiation) were vaporized. Oh, yeah. Mike also obliterated the island of Elugelab in the Eniwetok Atoll, Pacific Ocean, and blew 80 million tons of radioactive crud into the sky.
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Sphere: Related ContentThe Cold War offered a number of distinct and unique identifying features and characteristics :
The feature most evident to the inhabitants of both blocs was that there was a military buildup with special emphasis
upon nuclear weapons , the purpose of building such being to prevent advances by the other side along certain public identified fronts - in the earlier case Europe. During Cold War 1 the USA deployed nuclear weapons in Europe and the Russians for the first time acquired nuclear weapons as well.
The First Cold War was accompanied by a particularly intense propoganda campaign in which each side sought mainly to denigrate the other side. The west sought primarily to establish a homology between the natures of “totalitarian ” qualities and that of Nazi Germany on the the grounds that both were repressive and warlike.
The Russians sustained their critique of the exploitation therin in capitalim and the third world countries - most of which were still treated as “colonials” and colonies. Imperialism and warmonging so it was pointed out went hand in hand.
The idiological conflicts often rested upon suppression and a suppression of accurate and balanced information concerning the opposing camp and camps.
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Historians do tend to treat the First Cold War as a self evident point ending at some time in the era of the 1950’s , but the term Cold War is often used to denote the very process of east-west conflict itself, or the situation of arms buildup without “outright wars”. The “wars” tended to be limited and regional in scope.
In these latter terms , the more precise and exact term is “Co-existence” with the whole postwar period, the phases of which are regarded as the Cold War in its original historically specific sense.
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There was a tightening of controls within the capitalist and communist camps. A construction and revision of military blocs and camps developed , a repression of those suspected of sympathies for the other side. ( persecution of Titoists in Eastern Europe , McCarthyism in the U.S.A.)
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Sphere: Related ContentThe conflict between capitalism and communism found expression in third world revolutionary movements , in which the west sought to reverse and contain local elements that were presented as instruments of Soviet policy. This took place in Korea and Vietnam , Malaya and the Phillipines.
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Super-Power theorists place the blame on the two major powers together, arguing that the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. cojointly subordinated the world to their common interests and to their remaining differences. Popularized by China in the 1960’s , the “Superpower” theory identifies the two major powers , as in Peking’s phrase ” colluding and contending to dominate the world”.
This explanation and point of view has won particular support amongst those who see themselves as building a third alternative in world politics.
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Responsibility is ascribed to the actions of one major state and the actions of other innocent one are not seen as having contributed to the deadlock. U.S. imperialism theorists located the aggressiveness and belligerence of the west in the working of a social system capitalism which they argue requires confrontatation and military production for its survival.
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Sphere: Related ContentThe Russians soustained their critique of the exploitation inherent in capitalism and accompanied this by stressing the warmongering inherent in the very nature and character of capitalism , bith vis-a-vis the USSR itself and in the colonial world where a substantial number of conflicts were raging and ongoing. The ideological conflicts often rested upon a suppression of accurate and balanced information about the opposite camp.
There were no successful negotiations between either the USA and USSR in issues of mutual concern , whether bilateral un Europe or in the rest of the globe. Polemics and mutual denunciation replaced compromise and negotiated aggrement, The inability to find common ground on major issues was marked by tense confrontations along an “Iron Curtain” in Europe and by armed conflicts in the Far East.
 Six characteristics above all marked the First Cold War and provide the historical elements of what constitute modern Cold Wars.
1) The feature most evident to the inhabitants of both blocs was that there was a military buildup with special emphasis upon nuclear weapons , the purpose of such buildings being to prevent advances by the other side of such buildings by the other side along certain publicly identified fronts - in the earlier case Europe.
During Cold War I the USA deployed nuclear weapons in Europe , and the Russians for the first time acquired them.
Sphere: Related ContentEvents to which the great powers felt compelled to respond again halted this process of negotiation.
In 1965 US forces went into Vietnam ( French Indo-China) and the Dominican Republic , and in 1967 the Third Arab-Israeli War provoked renewed tensions and the two sides because of their involvment with the conflicting parties.
East-West relations were already bad when in 1968 Warsaw Pact Forces invaded Czechoslovakia . Only in 1969 , with the advent of the Nixon administration to office in Washington , did phase III , that of consistent negotiation or “Detente” , properly begin.
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Sphere: Related ContentDefined in this matter of Detente if becomes much easier to identify the peculiarities of those periods of the Cold Wars.
It can be said to be a period of the Cold Wars of Oscillatory Antagonism and that of Political and Bi-National “Detente”. If the latter marks the clearest contrast , the former is an ambiguous period containing elements and phases of Detente followed by reversion to the characteristics of the Cold War. The six features of Detente contrast with those already sen as characteristics “Cold War’ and ” Cold Warriors”.
Detente was marked by a retreat from the allout arms race, by a rhetoric of peace and pursuit of armament. Ehole Detente was not accompanied on either side, by substantial disarmament - i.e by net reduction of weapon levels , some limitation of the arms race i.e. arms control , was a prominent aim and acheivment of the Detente Period.
During Detente , there was a greater tolerance of the other social order , more interest in and more accurate information about its character . Indeed there was sometimes a tendency for analysts on one or the other side to minimize failings on the other side even when one or the other was well known to the two camps.
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Cold War I had brought neither neither peace nor honor for those that waged it.
Neither East nor West was able to prevail over the other , and the very partitions that accompanied its end - in Germany , Korea and Vietnam - symbolized the inconclusive character of its termination. Yet of there were no clear winners, both sides can be side to have gained in some measure from this level and situation of this segment and period of the Cold.
On the Soviet side , the leadership could see that that their alliance system was now established from Berlin , Peking and Hanoi , an extraordinary contrast with the situation prevailing before 1945 , let alone that in existence before World War II. The terrible devastation of the “Great Patriotric” or Second World War had given way to an outburst of reconstruction and development in Eastern Europe and the USSR as behind almost sealed frontiers , the construction of socialism went ahead apace.
The dynamism of the USSR was later in the decade to find expression in the scientific acheivments of Sputnik and the first manned space flights.
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Do you really want to hurt me?
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April 30, 2007
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A MALE escort told of his terror last night after claiming he was kidnapped by Boy George.Auden Carlsen, 28, said: “It’s ironic that his biggest hit was Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? — because I’m sure he did want to hurt me.
“I was convinced I was going to die.â€
The Norwegian spoke out as George, 45, was bailed by detectives probing assault and false imprisonment allegations.
Carlsen said he was grabbed by the singer and another man and chained to a wall after the star invited him to his pad in Shoreditch, East London, to pose for photos.
The escort fled in his pants after wrenching the hook from the wall.
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Carlsen revealed he met George on the Gaydar website, but only agreed to go to his flat at midnight as a £400 photographic model and not as an escort.
The ex-Culture Club star took pictures of him in kinky gear.
Carlsen said: “George said he was popping out for milk at 5am. I heard him come back and I walked into his bedroom wearing just my white underpants and a T-shirt. I was jumped on by George and another man.
“George handcuffed me to a hook by the bed as they held me down.â€
He said George got rid of the blond man then produced a box of whips and sex toys — telling him: “Now you’ll get what you deserve.â€
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Carlsen pulled the hook from the wall and fled — then alerted the police from a nearby newsagent’s at 6.30am on Saturday.
George — real name George O’Dowd — was taken to a police station.
Last year he got community service in New York after he said a rent boy tried to rob him — and cops found cocaine in his apartment. He was unavailable for comment last night.
Sphere: Related ContentThe geopolitical descriptive term “Cold War” originated from the 14th century writer Don Juan Manuel and initially referred to the conflict between Christians and Muslims . It was noted that at that 14th century time period that the distinction between hot and cold wars was that attributes was the manner in which the conflict and confrontation ends.
“War that is very strong and very hot ends either with death or peace…. wheras cold war neither brings peace or honour to the one that makes it .”
Thus Don Juan Manuel’s observation of warring conflicts as well as political , geopolitical , religious or ethical conflicts applies in a specifitc general geopolitical analytical manner to the Cold War of the 20th and 21’st century nuclear era and ages.
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